Every morning before go out of my house I check if my ipod is charged, then I put it in my pocket. WhileI'm walking I just can't stop dancing and singing, wondering myself why this wonderful music always makes me smile.
Actually I don't know the answer but I am not the only whose feel like this.
Rockabilly has become in one of the most popular music genre. First of all I have to define what is rockabilly. Well, it is one of the rock and roll subgenres and it began in the 50's decade. The term is a contraction of two words: rock and hillbilly, a variety of country music.
Other influences of rockabilly are western swing, rythim and blues and boogie woogie.There was already a close relationship between the blues and country from the first decade of the 20's. The first country hit was "Wreck of the Old '97" of Johnny Cash.
The rock and roll of the decade of the 50 soon evolved gaining speed and fury, becoming more wild and youthful.
Bill Halley could be considered as the father of rock and roll and the first rockabilly. Carl Perkins is considered as the father of rockabilly genre with his song "Blue suede shoes" in 1956, but the genre was worldwide popularized by Elvis Presley.
After them other interpreters appeared in this period of time til 1959.
In the 60's and 70's rockabilly was not as popular as before because of the new wave of punk, psychodelic music,etc, and the death of Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens,Johnny Burnette, Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry's incarceration, Elvis Presley's military service, Bill Halley's alcoholism,etc.
In the 80's emerged new bands even more faster and wild, called neo-rockabilly wave. Bands like Stray Cats, Blue Cats, Dave Phillips and the Hot Rod Gang, Restless, Polecats, Kingbeats and Blasters, gave to rockabilly some brit punk rock influence, emerging psychobilly. The Cramps and The Meteors are a good example for this genre. And in the 90's it turns back to the original style.
Here one of my favorite mexican bands: Los Leopardos
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